Non Tradition Colours - Christmas

Christmas definitely seems to be my theme at the moment. I have had this paper pack by Kaisercraft for a while now and whilst i love the colours, i have never really seem to find an idea that works. This one came out pretty well and i must admit i am quite happy with the final card.

Papers and sentiment by Kaisercraft
Spellbinders Snowflake Die
Gems, Silver Card, White Cardstock, Silver ribbon all from my ever increasing stash.

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:

Pammies Inky Pinkies Challenge

DRagonfly Dreams Challenge

A Bit More Time To Craft Challenge

A Perfect Time To Craft Challenge

Craft-Dee Bowz Challenge

Crafty Hazelnuts Patterned Paper Challenge

CCC Digi Creations Challenge

LeAnns World Challenge

Thanks for visiting!

I Loooovvvveeee Halloween!

Its no secret i looovvvveee Hannah Lynn Images and this was one i haven't played with for some time, i love digital papers and stamps because you can set them to the size you need them. Although Etsy can be like a candy shop to crafters :)

I really enjoyed making this card and it turned out like i visioned which i was happy about, although i did make a rookie error as i put the wrong card stock in my printer when i printed my image so although i coloured it with my Copics there is no blending. But i am still happy with it.

For this Card i used:

Cardstock - Bazzil  - Raven
Digital Stamp - Kara by Hannah Lynn (Etsy)
Digital Papers - harlowlanedesigns - Etsy
Spooky Sentiment - KreationsbyKrise - Etsy
Green Flowers, Black & White Twice, Spider Charm, Spider - From Stash
Black Flowers - White KaiserCraft coloured with a black Sharpie
Dies - Couture Creations
Mini Rhinestones - The Stencil Specialists
Adhesives - Double Sided Tape, Dimensionals, Glossy Accents

I would like to submit my card for the following challenges:

A Gem of a Challenge - Halloween/Halloween Colours

Crafters Castle Challenge - Anything Goes with Option Fall/Halloween

Hiding in my Craft Room challenge - Anything Goes

Crafting with Friends - Just for fun

Crafty Catz Challenge - Anything Goes

Thanks for stopping by :)

Sassy Studio Designs - Fun Card

Good Evening everyone,

Hope you all had or are having a great weekend. Cannot believe mine is almost over already, blink and its over.

For this card i wanted to keep things a little simple but still have a fun and classy card. This digi i purchased from Sassy studio Designs instantly came to mind, she is a lot of fun. Although i must confess i am not 100% happy with my colouring on this one but i know i still need a lot of practice. Speaking of colouring with Copics i am looking into doing one of the classes at Kit and Clowder as i have read a few peoples blogs that have done one and their colouring is awesome...definitely have colouring envy :)

I decided to go with a more traditional colour scheme of Black, White and Red, i really think it is a colour combo that you simply cannot go wrong with.

I keep looking at this card and whilst i am very happy with it, i cant help thinking it just needs a little more. Because i cannot place what it needs i have left it as is as i figure it is better than trying to add more to it and ruining it entirely, does anyone else experience this?

For this card i used

Paper, Cardstock, Ribbon and gems all from Stash.

Embossing Folder - Couture Creations

Image - Sassy Studio Designs

Colouring - My trusty Copics

I would be honoured to enter my card in the following challenges:

Clear It Out Challenge - Anything Goes

Kraftin Kimmie - anything Goes

Stampin Royalty - Embossing

Simon Says Stamp - Special Lady/Girly

Scrappers Delight - Anything Goes

Pennys Challenge - One for the girls - Female Card

Inspiration Destination - Anything Goes

Inky Impressions - Dots or Stripes

Crafting for all Seasons - Girly Girls

Dazzling Diva - Anything Goes

7 Kids College Fund - Anything Goes

Sugar & Betty - Anything Goes

Southern Girls Challenge - Girly Themes

Thank you for taking the time to visit and i really appreciate any comments that you leave :)

Jox

I just love these patterned papers and i wanted to use them to make as many cards as possible

Hi Everyone,

I hope Monday treated you well, at least it is now closer to the weekend than it was :)

As you may have gathered from my last two posts, i am absolutely in love with these blue and white patterned papers by Fabscraps, now i do have a scrap bits box but i know what i am like, the pile just gets bigger and i forget whats in there so they rarely get used. So i used this as motivation to try and use up as much of the patterned papers as possible. I also brought a whole load of digital images over the weekend and it just seemed rude not to use them :)

I also wanted to try something a little different with my layout so please feel free to leave any comments or suggestions, i tend to get in my comfort zone and then everything kind of becomes the same...i guess you don't know until you play around and try.

For this card i used:

Image - Saturated Canary

Patterned Papers - All by Fabscraps

Dies - Spellbinders

Pearls - From stash

Colouring - Copics (same colours as my last two posts but the addition of B21 for her beautiful eyes)

Card Stock - Bazzill

I would very much like to submit my card in the following challenges:

Cute Card Thursday - Fancy Corners

Crafty Cardmakers - Stripes

Crafters Cafe - Lots of Layers

Creative Knockouts - Lots of Layers

Crafty Catz - Use your dies/Punches

The Paper Shelter - Make it digital

Thank you so much for stopping by and taking the time to read my ramblings.

Have a fab week

Jox

Had to share my new Hannah Lynn Image - Dee Dee

Hi Everyone,

I saw that Crafts and Me have 20% off at the moment so figured i would treat myself with a new image for Easter, well 6 images purchased later...I couldn't wait to make a card with this image, she is such fun and absolutely gorgeous.

Isn't she stunning :)

For this card i used:

Gems by Kaiser Craft
Ribbon (coloured with Copics) & Buckle from stash
Hannah Lynn Image - Dee Dee
Paper by Primary Basics
Red Spica Pen
Clear Star Gelly Roll
Copics - C1, YG23, B16, Y00, Y15, Y18, E13, E15, E17, E49, E50

I would like to enter this card in the following challenges:

Sweet Stampin Challenge

Everybody Art Challenge

Now i am off to decide which image to play with next, thanks for visiting 

Love Jox

Let's do lunch

Hi everyone,

Hope your Monday has been going well so far. I started this card last night and finished it off this evening. I fell in love with this digi from The Paper Shelter a while ago and of course purchased it but have been having a little trouble trying to find a card or occasion to fit it. Hope you agree this one all worked very well together.

I used the following...

Digi from The Paper Shelter

Papers and ribbon are from my stash

card Stock Kmart

Black and Pink Gems Kaiser Craft

Sentiment - i generated this in Word

Gelly Rolls Pink star and Red Star

Copics Y32, R81, E41, RV34, R46, E47, C9, E17, E50, E15

Glossy accents

Martha Stewart Border Punch

Double sided tape

I would like to enter this in the following challenges

Crafts and Me

Cute Card Thursday

Creative Inspirations

Have a great week and thanks for visiting

Jox

Forever Friends Girly Card

I trust everyone had a good week, mine was pretty busy at work and definitely happy its not the week end!

I am entering the card in several challenges and would be interested to have your feedback. Girly is not really my strong point, think i have a tendency to be too much of a tomboy some ha ha. But i really enjoyed making this one and it is certainly a lot busier than my normal cards but it has all come together pretty well i think?

Well i worked around the topper this time, whereas i normally work the other way around. The image and papers are all from the same paper pack. I used a pearlescent white card blank to start. I then cut my striped paper to the size i wanted it and mounted on to slightly darker brown paper. I then cut a smaller square of flowered paper and mounted this on the same brown paper, but i made the border on this one a lot narrower. I took some more pearlescent card stock and trimmed it down to a strip to go over the from. I then punched the design along the bottom. I Cut a strip of dotty paper and adhered this to the card strip. I am shocking at trying to stick paper down straight so much confess i had to trim along the top a little to make sure it aligned. I then wrapped a white ribbon and stuck this to the back. I then adhered the strip to the card after much playing around with positioning. I cut out the image, mounted on to white card stock and them mounted again on the same brown paper. I adhered this to the card using double sided foam tape so give it a bit more lift and so it didn't look flat against the embellishments i wanted to ad. I then cut out a flourish using a die and my big shot, this was cut from the same white card stock. I really wanted to use my Marianne rose dies because i love them and decided i would make three roses out of the offcuts of the different papers and i actually really like the contrast it gives. I punched a butterfly using my trusty Martha Stewart butterfly punch and adhered to the card and then added my beloved gems. I added some stickles to the inside of the roses to give them a little more pizazz. Hope you like my efforts

I used...

Forever Friends image and papers by Do Crafts

White pearlescent card stock from Kmart

Flourishes Die

Martha Stewart Butterfly punch

Martha Stewart border punch

Gems from Kaiser craft

Marianne Rose Die

Glossy Accents

Stickles

I would like to enter my card in the following challenges

Divas By Design

Allsorts Challenge

Creative Inspirations

Have a great weekend and as always thanks for joining me

Jox

Happy Birthday with Old and New

Hi everyone,

Well i am back with another card, this one i am entering in several challenges. Simon Says Stamp and Show tasked a theme of something "Old" which i am using old backing papers that have been in my stash since i originally started card making a few years ago. The Sweet Stop have a sketch as their challenge and i really liked the sketch, sometimes i find this hard to work by as i just cannot visualise it but this one i seemed to have no issue with. My final challenge is Charisma cardz and their theme is Happy Birthday and if you put the number 4 on your card you get entered 4 times in the challenge. Without much further ado here is what i created...

I started off with a 15cm x 15cm pearlescent white card base. I took two of my patterned papers and cut them down to 7cm x 14cm and adhered them both on black card stock. I then trimmed the black card stock down leaving a small back border. I then cut a piece of black card stock 3cm x 14cm and used a border punch on the bottom. I then fixed this panel to the card base using double sided tape. I then cut another piece of patterned paper to 5cm x 11cm and the adhered to more black card stock which i then trimmed down to leave a small black border. I adhered this to my card with double sided tape. For the sentiment i actually typed it out using Word and then adjust the size and spacing that i wanted and printed onto white paper. I then used a die cutting machine and dies to cut out the white sentiment and a slightly larger one in black which i then adhered together. The sentiment was then adhered to the card using square double sided foam pads to make it stand out a little more. The card still needed a little more so i added a black ribbon bow and punched out a butterfly from the offcuts of the patterned paper and adhered both using Glossy Accents and finally i added a few gems to give the card a little bit of bling.

I used...

Card Blank 15cm x 15cm from Kmart

Black card stock and patterned papers from my stash

Spellbinders Dies

Gems by Kaisercraft

Black ribbon from stash

Butterfly and Border punch both Martha Stewart

The Sweet Spot Challenge

Charisma Cardz Challenge

Simon Says Stamp and Show

Thanks for visiting and enjoy the rest of your weekend.

Jox

Using old backing papers

Well i am entering a couple of card making blog challenges with this card and the theme for Simon Says Stamp was something "Old" well i have had the backing papers i used in my stash since i started getting interested in card making a few years ago and just never seemed to use them. I am also entering The Sketchy Challenges blog and i loved their sketch thought it would be fun to combine the two.

I took a 15cm x 15cm card blank in pearlescent white as my base. I then cut a square in black card measuring 13cm x 13cm which i adhered to the card using foam tape. I then cut three pieces of my old backing papers in 8cm x 8cm, 11.5cm x 6.5cm and 5.5cm x 5.5cm. I arranged these on the card to match the sketch and adhered them with double sided tape. I downloaded the zebra digital image and printed on Copic card. I coloured the zebra a light grey just to make him pop a little more and coloured the background roughly as i wanted to have a little texture rather than be flat. I cut out the image and scalloped black circles using dies. I then attached them to the card using double sided foam square so he really pops out at you. it wouldn't be one of my cards without a few gems. Hope you like my finished card

I used...

White Pearlescent card blank from Kmart

Black Card stock and the backing papers are all from my stash

The digital image is from Cuddly Buddly

Copics E31 and C1

Black gems are Kaisercraft

Simon Says Stamp and Show

The Sketchy Challenges

Thank you for viewing

Jox

Kenny K digital image - New colours for me

Hi everyone,


well i resisted the urge to do another Hannah Lynn card and this time chose Trouble by Kenny K, i am also a big fan of his images as i find them fun and funky. I am entering this one into the Cute Card Thursday challenge and this week's challenge is NEW, well this is definitely a new colour scheme for me as i have avoided colours like Lime Green in the past and i also wouldn't have dared to put lime green and pink together so this is definitely something NEW for me. I am trying to be a little more daring in my card making this year and trying to stray outside of my comfort zone as much as possible and so far i have been quite pleased with the result.

The patterned papers i got free in Australian Simply Cards magazine a while ago and have decided to be daring and use them.

The Image is Trouble by Kenny K and i love her, she is such fun

The image was coloured using my trusty Copics and next card i promise to make a note of the colours i use

The Card itself came from Kmart of all places and the pink pearlescent paper i used as backing i picked up at my local newsagent.

Cute Card Thursday Challenge

Well sadly its back to work after two weeks off over Christmas and New Year but i have to pay for my crafting supplies some how.

as always thanks for taking the time
Jox

A very quick post - finished article

Hi All,

Well you will recognise this base card from my previous post but i had gotten stuck and couldn't think how to finish it. After some fantastic suggestions from the wonderful members of Do Crafts i was given the perfect idea. I really love this card now :)

As always thanks for reading